In December 2020, Brazil had an auction, and Amazon lands were sold to the fossil fuel industry. Learn more about it and see how you can engage with us.
Deforestation and other threats faced by indigenous peoples in the Amazon region have increased dramatically in recent years. In all likelihood, those will increase even further due to the lack of regulation and the licensing of land for oil extraction and mining in territories held to be sacred.
350.org has been working to defend Amazon since 2015. That same year, we won a ban on oil and shale gas extraction in the Juruá Valley. At that point, Petrobrás could not carry out any activity related to the extraction, including flyovers or research.
A rebellion kicked off in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center on Sunday, April 11th, after a police officer shot and killed Daunte Wright, a 20 year old African-American during a traffic stop.
Local residents and friends and family of Daunte quickly converged on the area where he was killed, smashing police cruisers left in the streets as riot police assembled and shot pepper-balls into the crowd.
Hundreds then rallied in protest outside of the police department, only to be met with a volley of projectiles and “non-lethal” weapons.
Bayer says it is bringing closure to the costly Roundup litigation through settlement deals totaling more than $11 billion, but new Roundup weedkiller cases are still being filed. Ken Moll is girding for battle.
Moll, a Chicago-based personal injury attorney, has dozens of lawsuits pending against the former Monsanto Co., all alleging the company’s Roundup weed killers cause non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and he is now preparing several of those cases for trial.
Moll’s firm is one of a handful that have refused settlement offers made by Monsanto owner Bayer AG, deciding instead to take the fight over the safety of Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicide products back into courtrooms around the country.
Though Bayer has assured investors it is bringing closure to the costly Roundup litigation through settlement deals totaling more than $11 billion, new Roundup cases are still being filed, and notably several are positioned for trial, with the earliest set to start in July.
disclaimer.. the main text here is from The Washington Post.It implies Gonzo’s murder was either by left FARC dissidents or ‘armed groups’. In fact the thousands of murders are nearly totally by rightwing mercenaries of the ruling settler elite with impunity of Duque’s neo fascist regime. Murderers and torturers supported and incited by the USA for the last 70 years. Many of the victims are ex- FARC community activists who disarmed with the ”peace Accords”
On a January morning in the foothills of the Andes, gave his daughter a goodbye hug, jumped on his 2015 Yamaha motorcycle and set off for the habitat of the elusive yellow-eared parrot.
Cardona had spent two decades nurturing the rare bird, a species once thought extinct. Now, they numbered in the thousands, and he was their protector — the overseer of the wild preserve in this South American nation where they thrived anew. A preserve that happens to abut one of Colombia’s most notorious drug routes.
“God willing, I will be coming back to you soon,” the 55-year-old told his daughter.
Three days later, a search party found his body in a shallow grave with two bullets in his chest. His slaying was the latest in a deadly wave of killings of environmentalists in Colombia, a nation where they are fast becoming almost as endangered as the species they strive to protect.
Apr 11 2021 8 comments By thecollective From Truthout by Kristian Williams
Mainstream Democrats are in a hawkish mood when it comes to “domestic terrorism.” That is bad news for the left.
Immediately upon taking office, President Biden “tasked the director of national intelligence, in coordination with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, with compiling a comprehensive threat assessment on violent domestic extremism,“ according to The Washington Post. This request was prompted by the right-wing attack on the Capitol on January 6.
The resulting report, “Domestic Violent Extremism Poses Heightened Threat in 2021,” was submitted on March 1, and its executive summary was released publicly a few days later. While its list of findings include some obvious observations — for example, that extremists are “motivated by a range of ideologies” and use the internet “to recruit, plan and rally support for in-person actions” — the final page of the executive summary, listing “Categories of Domestic Violent Extremists,” reveals a concerning typology.
FRAGUAS és un projecte d’okupació rural i repoblació ubicat a Guadalajara que porta des de 2013 en situació d’assetjament i de processos judicials. L’any passat vam poder estar-hi uns dies i vam poder observar un grup de gent convençuda, lluitant i defensant una forma de vida autogestionada i al marge del sistema capitalista.
ARA ESTAN EN PERILL DE DESALLOTJAMENT i necessiten ajuda. És per això que hem obert una caixa de resistència per solidaritzar-nos en la mesura del possible.
Us passem també el seu comunicat i el n° de compte on podeu fer la vostra aportació. LA SOLIDARITAT ÉS FORÇA!!!.
As the Climate Crisis Grows, a Movement still tries to Make ‘Ecocide’ an International Crime Against the Environment
from InsideClimateNews. 7 Apr 21, By Nicholas Kusnetz, Katie Surma and Yuliya Talmazan
International lawyers, environmentalists and a few polituicianssay “ecocide”—widespread destruction of the environment—would serve as a “moral red line” for the planet.
Humans have always exploited the planet while replenishing little or nothing. Modern Capitalist insane mass consumerism is devouring vital and often irreplaceable ecosystems for short term profits and usually with zero obligation to pay the real ecological costs. The Earth is no longer a seemingly infinite treasure storehouse, as corporations ”are obliged to” loot resources to win the rat race to disaster.
In 1948, after Nazi Germany exterminated millions of Jews and other minorities during World War II, the United Nations adopted a convention establishing a new crime so heinous it demanded collective action. Genocide, the nations declared, was “condemned by the civilized world” and justified intervention in the affairs of sovereign states.
Environmental ‘Ecocide’ Lawyer Polly Higgins Dies Age 50… Environmental lawyer Polly Higgins, best known for campaigning for ‘ecocide’ to be recognized as a crime against humanity, has died from cancer aged 50. The British barrister gave up her high-level job and sold her home to dedicate herself to her cause, lobbying legislation makers and writing the book Eradicating Ecocide, among many other actions.
Now finally, a small but growing number of world leaders including Pope Francis and French President Emmanuel Macron have begun citing an offense they say poses a similar threat to humanity and remains beyond the reach of existing legal conventions: ecocide, or widespread destruction of the environment.
The Pope describes ecocide as “the massive contamination of air, land and water,” or “any action capable of producing an ecological disaster,” and has proposed making it a sin for Catholics.
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